[HN Gopher] Bassoonfluencers: The World of Instagram Practice Ac...
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Bassoonfluencers: The World of Instagram Practice Accounts
Author : fortran77
Score : 47 points
Date : 2021-03-27 05:02 UTC (1 days ago)
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| muglug wrote:
| I grew up playing the violin, and also drawing a lot.
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| They had very different models for learning: with the violin
| you'd spend weeks or months in solitude on a piece, each week
| trying to improve some particular passage, and then you performed
| in front of lots of people, and then it was done.
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| The drawings I did, on the other hand each consumed a few hours
| at most. Each drawing made me a bit better, and I got constant
| feedback. There wasn't one single important moment, where things
| could go wrong and invalidate months of preparation, and drawings
| were also fairly mutable.
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| This is interesting because it's a sort of union of the two --
| practice becomes performance. Maybe I'd have been a little more
| motivated if I'd been able to see my peers practice violin.
| meken wrote:
| Really cool to see a "day in the life" of someone in some
| profession, to get a feel for what it's really like. And it also
| gives you a sense for what practice looks like, and what's
| necessary to get good.
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| It's a nice way to feel part of a community, too. If there was a
| way to get on stream with a bunch of other people practicing, I
| find that more motivating to practice myself.
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| Indeed, this is what I miss most about not being in the office:
| seeing people modeling good working behavior. I find it much more
| motivating to have that in my immediate environment.
| meken wrote:
| On a related note, I've been following P90X workout videos for
| a few months now. They've been really effective for motivating
| me to workout consistently.
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| I wonder if "workout videos" for other domains would work to
| motivate people.
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| Like, if you wanted to get motivated to work on a side project,
| you could pop in an hour-long video of some charismatic leader
| encouraging a bunch of programmers, talking to them, pumping
| them up, encouraging them, P90X style.
| why_Mr_Anderson wrote:
| >encouraging bunch of programmers, pumping them up,... https:
| //assets.amuniversal.com/6856d80039c30136327f005056a95...
| christophilus wrote:
| I expected a gif of Balmer.
| jboggan wrote:
| Never thought I'd see bassoons mentioned on an HN post.
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| I'm a data engineer now but I started college on a bassoon
| scholarship.
| jeofken wrote:
| What are HNs favourite accounts/blogs in this genre? I'd be extra
| interested in string players :)
| gooseyard wrote:
| The instagram page of Lauren Pierce (bass) is a lot of fun for
| me since it's encouraging to watch a player of her caliber
| struggling with really difficult pieces, or working on pieces
| she doesn't enjoy but still motoring through them anyway.
| vbsteven wrote:
| Not specific accounts but Reddit Public Access Network and
| Twitch are interesting services to discover this kind of
| content. Although the signal to noise ratio is low.
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